Everything about Uriarra Australian Capital Territory totally explained
Uriarra is a settlement in the
Australian Capital Territory. It had been a forestry settlement from the 1920s to the 1980s.
The 2003 bushfires destroyed 16 houses in Uriarra, with only 6 houses still standing afterwards. 15 families moved away from the settlement, with 6 remaining.
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In 2007 the ACT government decided to redevelop the settlement as a rural village, and development of new roads and infrastructure commenced. Blocks of land are for sale as at 2008, but no new building has commenced. The development has a number of restrictions on building, such as there's no treated town water, only untreated water from the
Bendora Dam. Each house must have a
rain water tank,
sewerage treatment, and
firefighting system. The village has a buffer zone for horse agistment.
Location
The village is off the side of the Brindabella Road that connects the Cotter area via the
Brindabella Ranges to
Brindabella, New South Wales and
Tumut. It also has a farm called Uriarra about a kilometer to the west where Mountain Creek Road (the way to
Yass) joins. Uriarra Crossing is a low level bridge over the Murrumbidgee River to the north, providing an alternative route to
Weston Creek and
Belconnen.
Uriarra Forest to the south was destroyed in the 2003 bushfire.
Geology
Uriarra Volcanics appear north west of the Winslade fault. It consists of
dacite lava flows and
pyroclastic deposits of
tuff. A fine
ashstone bed called Tarpaulin Creek Ashstone Member outcrops
in a distorted north south line acts as a marker. Tuff and flows above and below the ashstone member contain
obvious pink
feldspar crystals. The tuff shows
bedding, and the flows have banded flow structure. The
Cotter
Porphyry to the north of the Cotter Dam is actually a dacite flow. There is a
limestone lens north of Uriarra Crossing.
The outcrop goes from Mountain Creek Road in the west to the Murrumbidgee river in the east. It extends a few
kilometers to the north of the ACT border and south to the Winslade Fault near the Cotter River. A wedge of limestone
extends to the south south west including
Pierces Creek.
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